WHEREAS it is enacted by the Act of the Imperial Parliament called “The Naturalization Act 1870” hereinafter referred to as “the said Act” that the declaration of alienage and of British nationality and the oath of allegiance where respectively made or taken as therein provided elsewhere in Her Majesty’s dominions than in the United Kingdom may respectively be made and taken in the presence of any Judge of any Court of civil or criminal jurisdiction or of any Justice of the Peace or of any other officer for the time being authorized by law in the place in which the declarant is to administer an oath for any judicial or other legal purpose:

And whereas by the said Act it is also enacted that the jurisdiction by the said Act conferred on the Secretary of State in the United Kingdom in respect of the grant of a certificate of readmission to British nationality in the case of any statutory alien in any British Possession may be exercised by the Governor of such Possession:

And whereas under the said Act regulations have been made by one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State for the transmission to the United Kingdom for the purpose of registration of declarations and certificates made in pursuance of the said Act of the United Kingdom and for the imposition and application of fees in respect of any registration authorized to be made under the said Act and in respect of the making of any declaration or the grant of any certificate authorized to be made or granted under the said Act:

And whereas it is by the said Act enacted that any such regulation shall not so far as relates to the imposition of fees be in force in any British Possession:

And whereas it is expedient that provision should be made for the imposition and application of fees in respect of the making declarations and the grant of certificates authorized to he made or granted under the said Act in New Zealand and in respect of other acts matters or things authorized to be done under the said Act in New Zealand: